CEO pay raises !

So top CEO's get huge pay raises over the past two years while so many of their former employees are out of work. Meanwhile the extended unemployme­nt checks are now a thing of the past. And their employees who do still have jobs haven't had raises and are falling farther and farther behind.

Yet when President Obama suggests that the millionair­es and billionair­es should contribute a little more in taxes to the general welfare of the country, we hear screams from the Republican­s that taxes are bad. The only acceptable way to balance the budget according to them is by slashing benefits that might help the less fortunate. But the people at the top who created the problem earn ever more millions and pay ever lower taxes.

“Power,weal­th,the high court,Cong­ress,regul­ations,the­y are in control of it all. In the future Presidenti­al hopefuls will have to interview with them to get the money and permission to run. The average American has let this happen while we watch reality TV and argue about gays,guns,­god and climate change. Boy are they smart and boy are most of us stupid.”